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UNITED STATES? MAX xnrz, OF'N'EWYCRK, 1 I.'Y., ASSIGNOR r voss COPARTNERSHIE COMPOSED or PHILIP voss,

PAT ENT orr cs.

STERN, OENEW YORK, N. Y., A EMANUEL- VOSS, AND MORRLS VOSS.

Ferraro.

Application filed April 6,

To all whom it may concern:

Be known that I, MAX KATZ, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, have made a new and useful Invention in Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to fabrics, especially those of a lace-like character, primarily adapted for use at the upper portion of a ladys underwaist or camisole, and the object of the invention is to so combine the decorative features and the mechanical structure of the design as to produce the effects more fully described hereinafter.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 represents a piece of fabric; Fig. 2 is the same fabric incorporated in a garment (side View) Fig. 3 is a rear view of the garment shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 4: is an alternative detail of one part of the fabric. The material ofthe fabric may be of any desired kind. In the drawings it is shown as lace or net work a with embroidered designs 1) incorporated thereon. That edge of the fabric which is adapted to constitute the upper edge of the garment is fortified and reinforced by the embroidered edge I). At a short distance from this edge, approximately the width of a shoulder strip, is a double row of embroidered lines 12 and 72 extending longitudinally of the fabric. The distance between the two lines 6 and b is preferably so small that. when the lace a which lies within these two lines is longitudinally out each of the fabric edges 6 and 6 thus formed will have the appearance of a finished fabric edge similar to that at 6.

These two lines 6 and 6 being embroidered or being made of overseamed cord or other equivalent structure act as reinforcements.

e A plurality of similar supplemental reinforcements c extend at suitable intervals between the two lines 6 and b and connect the same, the stitches forming the supplemental reinforcements 0 being respectively anchored in any appropriate form in the lines b and b A longitudinal cut made between the lines 5 and b and severing one or a plurality of the supplemental reinforcements 0 will form an opening in the fabric of which the two longer sides will be reinforced by parts of the lines 6 and 6 two of the supplemental reinforcements a in Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 11, 1921.

1920. Serial No. 371,671.

each case forming the opposite end termi nals of the out. These reinforcements c being united with or anchored to the lines 6 and b will resist the tendency of the fabric to rip under strain since when such a cut as described is made the edges of this entire out will always, no matter between what two points it is made, he composed of a continuous line of reinforcement composed of Z2 0, b 0. This line of reinforcements being continuous is equivalent in effect to the use of an edging composed of a single continuous cord. The upper partof the fabric located between I) and 72 is preferably provided with a plurality of apertures (Z adapted for the insertion of the ribbon c.

The fabric when incorporated at the upper part of an underwaist is slit on a line between 6 and b from 7 to g respectively, 7 and g being each one of the supplemental reinforcements 0 (Figs. 2 and 3), thus forming shoulder straps which are integral with the fabric itself.

It is apparent that a garment made of the fabric of this invention will not require shoulder straps to be sewed crosswise to the upper edge of the material. The continuity of the upper edging at the front and back of the garment and the continuous integral shoulder strap is not only more sightly but results in a diminution in the vertical extent of the garment at points below the shoulder.

The invention thus combines a shoulder strap and trimming in one, so that armholes may be slit at any required distance leaving a perfect, embroidered or woven edge both on the shoulder strap and the trimming where the separation has been made, the edges b and o (Fig. 2-) constituting trimmed edges just as much as the edge Z). The fabric of this invention may be made of any suitable material, woven, embroidered, knit or crocheted or otherwise, and variations in design may be made without departing from the spirit of this invention. Thus, for example, the configuration of the lines Z2 and 72 may be that shown in Fig. 4-. The lines o and Z2 may in fact be developed in a very large variety of individual, decorative directions.

What I claim is:

A fabric adapted to constitute the upper portion of an underwaist comprising a foundation of decorative design, reinforcements upon said foundation spaced from each other transversely of the fabric and eXtendnamed reinforcements at spaced intervals, ing in continuous lines longitudinally thereany tWo of said supplemental reinforceoi, said reinforcements being close together ments forming the opposite end terminals 10 and constituting guides between which the of said out. foundation of the fabric may be cut and a In testimony'whereo'f I have hereunto set plurality of supplemental reinforcements iny hand.

extending between and connecting the first MAX KATZ. 

